working hard at hardly working

So this morning I come in to work all upset because I will be missing Canada's second game of the World Junior Hockey Championships only to be reminded that TSN is doing live streaming video on TSN.ca.

I should start by mentioning the great christmas tradition of gathering around the TV to watch 19 year olds play hockey. It's good times. So much so that last year I rushed home from my Organic Chem class just in time to watch the game. I would have skipped but it's organic freaking chemistry. Anyway, yes World Junior's good times.

Side note: H-Dot, do you remember the time we saw Jonathan Toews in Timmy Ho's? More good times.

My big problem this year is that I still find the players attractive even though I KNOW they're too young for me.

Anyway back to live streaming video. So I've got the game on while I'm filing when my boss comes in. I had fully intended to cut the sound as soon as I was done filing because I'm at work, but I hadn't gotten to that point yet. Anyway so my boss comes in and tells me that I should turn up the sound. So I got to watch the game.

Thank god I'm in my new department or I would have been in big shit for this.

Killing time

Strange how the day seems to go by so much slower when you start 30 minutes later. As I've said I've recently changed positions at work. My new boss requires me to come in later to cover a later shift. So for the last 3 days I've been in about half an hour later.

Normal it's about 2:45 and I'm bored but I manage to drag out cleaning my desk to make the time go by. Unfortuatly today I'm still bored at 2:45 and I can't think of anything else to do.

Delay of Game

So as most of you know by now I've changed jobs within my company. The problem that I now face is that my old department loved me so much that they just can't let me go. And by that I mean that I'm still doing old job work because they're short staffed due to poor human resource management, likely the result of general denial about the turnover rate in my old department.

Anyway so here I am in my new department trying to do both jobs but not getting very far on either. To make matters even worse I'm not getting a whole lot of support from the staff in my old department. In fact I talked to my old boss about the double shifting situation and he told me that the new boss was perfectly aware of what was going to happen once I moved over to the new department. Which I of course accepted until new boss asked me if I would be working on new department stuff or old stuff. So obviously he wasn't quite sure what was going on.

But on a postive note I love my new department. I've only been here 3 days and it's just on the other side of the floor but it's all so different. And I have a window seat. Right now there's a Saskatchewan flag in it but that's due to CFL rivalries that I refuse to become a part of.

You would be the McGyver of Bums

I'm not sure what it is with the guys that I work with but somehow our lunch time conversation always turns to bums. The homeless kind not the anatomical kind. Usually we're discussing it in some sort of charity contexts, like giving our food to the bums. But yesterday we were treated to one of the guy's plans in the unfortunate event that he would become homeless.

The plan was so extensive and did include a certain amount of resourcefulness which prompted on the other guys to respond "Man, you would be like the McGyver of bums."

In all the excitement of packing I forgot to pack.

I'm not sure how I haven't posted since I found out but I guess I really did forget in all of the excitement.

I got a new job. Sure it's just moving to the other side of the same floor but it will definitely change my working conditions. The one crappy thing is that my manager hasn't posted my position or the other vacant position as of yet so my old department is going to be short. That means that I will be splitting time between the old department and the new one, at least until they can find a replacement (good luck).

The new job is only a term so I'll be coming back at the end of July but by then alot of things will have changed in my current department. Who knows though I may just take another term with another department. We'll see what happens in the next year.

The tough choices in life.

Most of you know that I graduated from university in the spring. With graduation comes the convocation ceremonies. I skipped my spring convocation ceremony thinking that I would go to the fall one. Yesterday I realized that my convocation is on the same day as the Colts/Patriots game. Which is quite possibly the biggest regular season game of the year. Particularly if both teams remain undefeated.

Convocation starts at 3:00, game starts at 3:15. So there is no way that convocation will be over by the time the game start. What's a girl to do?

The boys at work looked at me like I was crazy when I told them this. They said it was an easy decision. I should mention here though that 2/3 of them are Colts fans.

I know the game will be re-broadcast later in the week on NFL network but I also know that the boys at work will be discussing the game on Monday. Gah!

Countdown until Quebec

I don't know if you missed it but I'm going to Quebec tomorrow. I'm taking 3 days off of work and spending my long weekend out east. So I'll be in Quebec a grand total of well almost 6 days. We'll be in Montreal at 1:30et. There is some definite squee-ing at this point.

On the down side I'll be gone over the weekend so that means I'll miss football on Sunday. That means no Colts game, no Saints game, and no Giants game. Not that I watch the Giants games anyway. I tend to switch back and forth.

It's Monday

Monday morning (and Tuesdays after a long weekend) always brings a major case of the Mondays. However today it also brings a Monday Night Football game I actually will watch. Unlike most NFL fans there are only certain teams I will watch, the Colts, the Giants and the Saints.

Tonight's game features the New Orleans Saints and the Tennessee Titans. Will this game be any good? Not in the Saints keep putting up exactly zero offense like they have the previous two weeks. So really the only reason for me to watch this game is:

Drew Brees

Playing favorites

Office politics are a funny thing. It can make or break your career. Sometimes office politics is completely subconscious. You don't even realize that you're playing the game most of the time. But I realized today that even in our interactions with other departments in our company we all have our favorites.

There are people who's questions you don't mind interupting whatever you're working on to answer and there are people who you wish would just ask someone else. Each of us has someone who is most likely to ask something of us more than any other person in the department. Oddly enough my person is not office crush. Even though I do get a little giddy when he asks for my help on something.

My secret life as a "banger"

We all know that I prefer fiddles to crazy guitar solos, what good country girl doesn't? But the other day my brother was on Facebook using the iLike application and playing the iLike challenge and we came across the weird musical anomaly that is me.

I should start off by saying that I currently have a streak of 683 points on the iLike challenge as a result of them separating it into musical genres. I rock at the country music challenge. But my brother of course being into punk can't stand the country so he was playing the rock genre challenge. I have to say that I was helping him a lot with that one too because it's mostly pop-punk Avril Lavigne type crap. Anyway we came across one where the answer was Godsmack and my brother gives me this look that's like "How did you know that?". Of course my initial response is that I'm Shaboobala's protege, because Shaboobala knows all. Anyway I really don't know why I knew that as I don't actually listen to Godsmack so I'm thinking that maybe I'm listening to hard rock and metal in my sleep.

Dreaming of high school

Okay I haven't been in high school for a while and I hated every second I spent there but last night I had a dream about people I went to school with. Strange. It's funny because it's the sort of thing that totally could have happened logically based on things that actually did happen in high school but I know it didn't just because of the cast of characters. People always told me that high school was going to be the best time of my life. I never believed them but obviously there's something I still miss about the place.

Even stranger than dreaming about people I knew in high school is when I start dreaming about people that I know from college and then mix them in with people I knew in high school. This is strange because even though I left home most of the people I went to school with didn't. In fact I saw them at a social a couple of weeks ago and things are exactly the same. It's the same people hanging out with the same people, doing the same things. It's kind of sad actually.

Sunday is a day of complete misery

While most people are able to spend thier Sundayas basking in the fact that they don't have to work, I tend to spend it reminding myself that I have to go to work tommorow. The only upside to going to work is that I drop in on Starbucks on my way to pick up some delicious crack... er ummmm... coffee.

This Sunday has been particularly devistating to me, in an entirely melodramtic sense of course. First of all even though it was the first Sunday of the NFL season I found very little to enjoy about it. The Colts played on Thursday night and for some odd reason (perhaps because he's now engaged), Eli Manning just doesn't have the same effect on me.

Secondly Novak Djokovic lost the U.S. Open Men's final to Roger Federer. Sure I saw it coming but that doesn't make it any easier to watch. At least Justine Henin won the night before. It's funny how into these things I get. I guess we know why I'm not a professional athlete, I'm not even playing and I'm nervous half the time.

Anyway here's some amusing Djokovic footage. From this you can see why he's a tennis player and not a singer. But it's still funny.

The dilemma of Thursday

So today I'm torn as to what to watch on TV tonight. I know it's sad when I biggest issue is what to watch but today is a fantastic TV night.

First of all we've got Big Brother on CBS. I've been following big brother all season so I'd kind of like to see what happens especially since it's supposed to be a double eviction week.

Secondly there is some actual regular season Colts/Saints game on TSN and we all know how I love Peyton Manning.

Additionally there is some Novak Djokovic action going down on RDS tonight. As much as it's entirely wrong for me to have a thing for a 20 year old it's obviously not stopping me. He's cute enough that I would be willing to:
a)not watch the colts game
b) watch Tennis in French

Why are all the hot guys so young.

In case you somehow missed it I kind of have a crush on Novak Djokovic. However this age this is getting to me. I could live with a year or two. This is how I've justified other athlete crushes such as Sidney Crosby or Rafael Nadal. But anything more than that is kind of pushing it. I would like to point out though that he doesn't look like he's 20, so maybe I can justify it that way. As much as I like to bug H-dot about her thing for creepy old men I have to admit that I'm not really one to talk as far as having a thing for older guys. By older I mean somewhere between late 30s and early 40s not like Octogenarian, 'cause there's a line and that's definatly over it.

So I guess what I'm really trying to say here is that I really need to be looking for more age appropriate men, and preferably ones that I don't work with because this office crush stuff is killing me.

Okay that's it I quit

quite frankly I just can't keep up to the world of sports so I'm done with the sports blog. That means you guys are just going to have to deal with even more sports crap on my non-sports blog. But you should be used to that by now.

Seriously my life really boils down to bitching about my job, crushing over guys at work and sports. So if you love me you're just going to have to deal with it.

Happy Birthday to me!

Yes it's Monday but it's also my Birthday. All last week when I thought about my birthday I thought about how old I am (and how old I feel). But today I'm all better. Also in honor of my birthday there is a major tennis tournament. Okay so that happens to be a big coincidence but I'll take it.

And here's my present to me, a little Novak Djokovic.

Panic

Okay so today I had an absolutely terrible day at work and have now Fast-tracked my going back to school by a whole year. I realized today that there is not a single thing at my work place that I actually enjoy doing. Well the getting paid part is pretty nice but that's not really something that I do as it is a reward for the things I do-do. I also enjoy ogling the men but that is also an aside to the actual work that I do.

Someday I just feel absolutely wiped after a day at work, this has been happening more an more lately. I think it goes back to that weekend where all I did was sleep. Seriously when you sleep more than 20 hours in a 30 hour period there is defiantly something wrong with you.

Well that helps.

You wanna know something that could brighten a truly terrible day? Try this:
Does it really matter who it is? He's hot. But really his name is Jarrod Saltalmacchia. Try saying that 5 times fast. He's newly of the Texas Rangers, just got traded from the Braves.

I know this isn't the sports blog but it still made my day.

Moving right along

I know it's been a long time since I've posted anything, but quite frankly I've been busy at work. So busy in fact that I'm already on to my second crush. One would think that I would stop having these crushes given my advanced age. Yeah okay I'm not that old but I've not 15 anymore either.

Anyway one crush has pretty much been and gone. It was raging for a while but now I don't see him nearly as often. As for the other one, well he works on my floor so I see him all the time. It's kind of embarrassing actually. Every time I see him I get a little giddy. I've obviously been spending too much time with Laura and Alexa because it's okay for them to act like this but not me.

It's all a result of this dream I had the other night where we were on a company camping trip. First of all this makes NO sense given that it's a huge company and we don't work in the same department. Secondly we were competing for the same promotion, which again makes no sense.

Who wants to get smashed and tell card futures again? It's gotta work out better than last time.

If I only had a Scanner

I am now one video away from completing last year's rez yearbook. The problem is that I have a couple of pictures that are NOT in digital format that are so good they MUST go in the yearbook.

And so I wait for my brother to hook up his new printer/scanner/copier so that I can complete publication of they yearbook and begin printing. I just hope is worth the wait. Actually, no. If you don't like what I've put together then screw you. I put alot of hard work into it, and yeah maybe there are a few pictures of Steph and Liz with red eye but you know what? At least one of them deserves it.

Maybe Starbucks isn't so evil after all

Yesterday I went to Starbucks during my coffee break (as opposed to most days when I go at lunch) with Erin, and they were out of my favorite drink (black tea latte). So they substituted with an equally priced but less favorable Red Tea Latte. They also have me a coupon for a free drink, any thing, any size. This was awfully nice of them given that I really picked the Black Tea Latte randomly on that particular day as I've been switching it up as of late, just for fun.

Important Days in the Future

Here is a quick list of important dates in my upcoming schedule:

July 22, 2007 OB1's Birthday
July 20, 2007 Dad's Birthday
August 4, 2007 Kevin and Heidi's Wedding
August 6, 2007 Tennis Masters Canada starts
August 9, 2007 Indy vs Dallas (pre-season game)
August 19, 2007 The first time Janalee gets to see Eli Manning suck since January
August 27, 2007 My Birthday/ U.S. Open Starts
September 6, 2007 NFL regular season starts

Huston Street is Beautiful...

That is all.


Oh and this probably could have been a cross blog with the sports blog but I felt it was more appropriate here.

Yearbook update

As most of you know I'm still working on the SJC yearbook for last year. I finally appreciate all of the hard work that goes into making a yearbook. For the record I have 2 videos left to make and then I need to make my prototype CD to ensure that everything links the way it should, before I go large scale. So I should be into printing by mid-July.

My big issue now is will it all fit on one disc. God I hope so, but if not then Rez council will be paying for double sided cases which are signfigantly more expensive.

Yes I'd go with you. Now will you please stop asking.

I've been spending alot of time listening to my iPod lately, mostly on my way to work, but I didn't really notice until the other day that I haven't really added new music in a long time. Or at least not new music that I want to listen to over and over again.

Anyway this got me to thinking, besides the fact that I need to add some new stuff to my musical library, that I've listened to the Josh Turner song "Will you go with me" about a bigillion times. Okay maybe I'm exagerating just a little bit, iTunes says it's only been 53 (but of course it doesn't count when I listen to it on my iPod). That man's voice makes me a little bit weak in the knees and he's cute.

I've generally maintained that I would not shell out any money to see musical acts in concert, partly because I don't want to spend $ 70 to sit in the nosebleeds and watch them perform on a big screen, (if I wanted to do that I could stay at home and save the $70) and secondly because from what I've seen of live shows they are entirely dissapointing from a vocal talent standpoint. That or they lip-synch a la Shania Twain at the Grey Cup. But I would actually go to see Josh Turner in concert.

Oh and for the record I've listened to "just to be your man" 102 times according to iTunes.

Yet another creepy rez/athlete similarity

For those of you who used to read my old blog you know that I was constantly finding people who looked like people that I lived with in rez. Well here's another example. Thank god it's only in this one picture but still the similarities are enough to make me cringe. Oh and his name is Mike by the way. Yet another creepy coincidence.

I'm not sure if I'll be able to sleep tonight after this discovery. Well than and spending last night working on the Morgue video for the yearbook.

Oh that reminds me, if anyone has suggestions for music I should use in the video yearbook please leave a note in the comments. I've got about 4 hall videos left, plus the spring banquet and a video of random pictures.

Catfight at work

So today when I was assigned to a project with one of my co-workers I discovered exactly why the younger generation (the under 30 crowd) don't get along with the baby boomers.

The assignment was basically to make a list of customers which would serve as a waiting list. We had a whole stack of forms that had been faxed to us as well as e-mail requests. The list was to be put in order according to when we recieved the orders. My plan was just to enter all of the relevant information into a spreadsheet and then have it sort it for us. Of course my co-worker thought it would be faster just to sort all of the forms and then put the information that we needed into the spreadsheet.

Since we needed to insert most of the information into the spreadsheet anyway and it would save us from touching the forms more than once, it made perfect sense to me to just add and extra colum to our spreadsheet that could be deleted once the list had been sorted.

I'm not sure if it was simply a case of my co-worker not feeling comfortable with using excel for this purpose or if she truely believed it was faster to handle each of the sheets about 3 times to sort them. Whatever the case may be I didn't really want to start a huge fight and I didn't think it was a good idea to be doing two different things with them (ie: she does her half her way and I do my half my way) so I let her sort them while I went on break. But now we have to enter the bulk of the information into the spreadsheet anyway.

All in all it was a frustrating day. But I don't want to stir up shit just yet, so I let it go. Give me another month or so.

Random thoughts

It's been almost a week since my last post. I didn't even bother to talk about the fair, though that was a good time. There is just nothing about it that I want to put into writing.

Anyway it appears that with the loss of one of my co-workers, who is moving to a different department, much of what we do around here will be falling on me. So I'm about to become much busier than I was for the first month and a half.

Today I was thinking about what to do tommorow night. Tonight OB2 is coming over for supper and Friday night I'm going back out to the country, but I have no firm plans for tommorow. I'm considering going to a movie but then that's pretty much my entire night shot and I won't be able to get anything else done. Though there are a couple of movies playing that I wouldn't mind seeing.

The long road home

Last night I went home with my older brother to pick up my mom's car. See older brother 2 had borrowed my parents' truck so that he could move so his car was at the farm. Older brother 1 had some time to go and pick it up last night and little brother is off at Brandon with the car he and I share so I was carless. Mom told me I could have her car but I had to go out and get it.

So Older Brother 1 (OB1) and I went out in the truck to pick up the 2 cars. First of all it was pouring rain last night when I left work and I was soaked by the time I walked the 3 blocks home from the bus. OB1 told me he would be leaving his place by 5:00 which would get him to my place by 5:30. We also had to wait for his girlfreind to get off work at 6:30. So about 5:45 OB1 calls me to get directions to my place. When he finally gets there he bitches about how long it took for his supper to cook. I was pretty upset because I hadn't eaten, of course thinking we were going to be leaving my place by 6 and we would have to pick something up. Then we go to pick up his girlfreind at work and she's not there. She had gone home to eat. So the only person who hadn't eaten was me. Now I don't know if you've seen me when I haven't eaten but I get a little grumpy. So we stopped at McDonald's so that I could at least get something to eat.

Then on the way home OB1 and I talked about all sort of stuff that led into an arguement about the declaration of Quebec as a nation within a nation which he insists makes them legally closer to seperation to which I said it depends on what the legislation says. He said the words didn't matter and it was the idea. So obviously he doesn't understand how the legal system works. It blew up into a huge arguement which lead to hypothetically 100 years from now Quebec could be declare an autonomus state. Which true could hypothetically happen but lots of things could hypothetically happen.

Anyway so we didn't end up leaving the city until 7:00 which got us home about 8:45. But when we got there Mom's car wasn't there. She was on call and had gone in and then stopped to visit my Aunt who lives in town. Apparently she thought we weren't coming out. So she didn't get home until 9:45, which gave me time to go through the mail and visit with dad. I finally made it back to the city about 11:40 last night which left me with about 6 hours of sleep if I had gone to bed immediatly which I didn't . So now I'm dragging my ass through work thinking about my bed and how nice it'll be to get some sleep.

My blog sucks!

I came to this realization today, without sports my blog is nothing. Also my sports blog is less about sports and more about hot athletes. Part of the problem is that I can't liveblog as I used to before. Also I don't have the same oppurtunity to blog as I used to. Back in the rez days I could roll out of bed in the morning and blog. I'd come home from class and blog. Some of my favorite blogging came after a late night of drinking.

I have to admit that so far the sports blog has gotten far more use however I've had a whole 4 comments here while I'm still sitting at zero over at the sports one. Don't get me wrong I don't expect any of you to run off and leave me sympathy comments. I could care less, sure it's nice to hear from you guys once in a while but really I blog for my own sanity. So I will continue to write 2 sucky blogs everyday. Though I suspect that the sports will slowdown after the Stanley Cup final is over (possibly tonight) and the French Open ends, though there is more Tennis just around the corner.

Shadowing in the call centre

So my boss had this brilliant idea that I should job shadow in the call centre. Not that this is nessecarily a bad idea it's just boring as all hell. Right now is a down time for them so basically me and my shadowee sat and talked about farming. There was also discussion with the people around us about baseball. I just nodded my head and smiled because ever since I broke my leg in high school I hate baseball. I think it's the Devil.

It's not that I hate baseball so much as I've vowed never to play it again. Suprisingly 5 years later my knee is still giving me trouble occasionally. But yeah shadowing is boring and I get a new shadowee the day after tommorow, but hey at least I'm getting to know people.

Well I feel sheepish

This morning I decided to wear a dress to work. I suppose if I look back on it the decision was made last night when I decided I was too lazy to do laundry. Anyway so I found out that I had it on backwards when I went to the washroom and noticed that it wasn't fitting quite right. The problem is that this dress is one of the ones you slip over your head so there's no zipper to tell you that you're wearing it wrong. Additionally it was a little big when I bought it so I had it tailored and the tag was removed. So they're no way to know which way to put it on unless you look in a mirror and I was running a little behind this morning so I didn't really have time to examine it closely.

But it's fixed now and it looks much better. But I feel kind of silly now, instead of the confident, powerful business woman look I was trying to portray.

Delayed Reaction

I ordered some books online about 2 weeks ago and I picked them up from the post office on Saturday and I'm almost done reading them. Today I checked by bank account information and my credit card was just finally charged today.

About 3 weeks ago I ordered new cheques from the bank. I haven't recieved them yet but they're Ottawa Senators cheques. Of course I had to pay extra for the specialized cheques but I figured I'm making money now so can afford to buy extra special stuff once in a while. Again my bank account was only debited yesterday.

I'm usually pretty careful with my spending, I look to see how much I have and do a quick mental estimate of my outstanding bills, but because theses things didn't show up until yesterday I'm looking at my bank account going, "oh crap I might not be able to make my rent payment". It's a good thing tommorow is pay day but I don't have nearly as much extra money coming in as I thought.

Starbucks is the Devil

So they've opened a Starbucks in Winnipeg Square, which is about a 5 minute walk from where I work. This is good for my taste buds but BAD for my wallet. In fact, I'm convinced that Starbucks has added tiny amounts of cocaine to thier vanilla syrup. Either that or I just have zero will power.

Anyway I'm up to 2 cups a day. I try to go one Grande and one Tall but lately it's been more like one Grande and one Venti. So I'm basically spending like 8 dollars a day. But I love the black tea latte.

I think I will blame Laura for introducing me to the joys of Starbucks, because until this year I always viewed Starbucks as an evil American empire that was trying to over throw Tim Horton's (which has already over thrown Robin's Donuts). But Tim's is too far away (aka the other side of Winnipeg Square).

I am slightly disturbed

So last night I had a dream about a co-worker and while it's not the first time I've dreamed about a co-worker it is the first time I've been truly disturbed by it, well except the time I had a dream about my boss but that was a different time and place.

Nothing actually happened in the dream (thank god). It was weird he took me to meet his family but we weren't actually seeing each other and then at some point I took him into an empty room to ask him what was going on and then I kissed him and his grandma walked in. It was a little weird.

The sad thing is that the entire dream spanned only 30 minutes but my analysis of it will last all day and probably into part of the weekend. I know that it only lasted 30 minutes because that was the time between when I woke up to go to the bathroom and when my alarm clock went off.

I suppose dreaming about co-workers will replace dreaming about rezzies now that I don't live there anymore.

A strong Canadian Dollar: Good for me, bad for farmers

So this morning I had to go to a meeting where they explained why sales projections were so low for 2007-08. The main reason is the strong Canadian dollar. But that's what happens when you export everything. This also has a negative affect on farmers as they have to export their goods as well, so farm prices are going to drop and farmers aren't going to be happy.

On a positive note, I am quite happy with the high Canadian dollar because I'm trying to save money for Grad school in the states and when the Canadian dollar is high everything is less expensive. If the Canadian dollar increases 1 cent I need $4,000 less for grad school. If it were par I'd need about $43,000. So I'm considering opening a U.S. dollar bank account so that I can take advantage of the high dollar. For example if I put in $100 Canadian right now I would get $92.43 U.S. if the Canadian dollar drops to 90 cents then I've still got $92.43 U.S. but if I invested $100 CDN @ 90cents I only get $90 American. Of course this backfires if the Canadian dollar strengthens. And 2 dollars may not seem like a whole hell of a lot but it's $20 if you're talking in thousands and $200 if you're talking in tens of thousands so you see how the FX changes could be really important to me.

I feel so dirty...

So after hours of deliberation I decided to cast my provincial election ballot in favor of the NDP. I'd first and foremost like to apologize to Harley. But under no circumstances could I vote for a party that promised to bring back the Jets. Up until that point I was all over the PC platform, but you just can't put that into your "Big 5" and expect people to take you seriously. I also wasn't particularly thrilled by our PC candidate.

Not that my vote counted. The NDP won our riding by 2,000 votes. We've got another NDP majority government, but I suspect 4 years from now McFayden will have figured out what he did wrong and we'll be looking at a PC government.

Holy Crap, I forgot the election!

It's provincial election day and I forgot to blog about it. In short my feeling on elections is this: I don't care who you vote for, as long as you go out and do it. Of course I have my political leanings but in Canada that doesn't mean a whole hell of a lot. Also I'm more inclined to get involved in Federal politics because well I just don't really care very much about provincial politics.

Oddly enough I still haven't decided who I'm going to vote for. I've been looking at websites and pulling up platforms for the last couple of weeks. I've also been talking to some people who are deeply moved by provincial politics. It's weird because I just moved so I don't really know what the issues are in my area, so I have to rely on my own issues and given that I'm really starting a new chapter in my life I don't even know what those are. So I'm going to go with Homer Simpson on this one and list one good thing and one bad thing from each party's platform (or at least the 3 major ones), these are not necessarily the major issues by any means but they are campaign promises. In no particular order:

Liberal

• Good: Improved community Mental Health funding. As someone who has spent a lot of time on health care waiting lists I can only see this as helpful to mental health patients.
• Bad: Extending "aging out" of children under the Child welfare system from 18 to 21. Uh-huh so we're going to have to pay for cigarettes and booze for these kids for another 3 years. GREAT!

Progressive Conservative

• Good: 1% PST reduction. I like buying stuff and I don't like taxes. Enough said.
• Bad: Promise to bring back the Jets. Don't get me wrong I'd love to have an NHL team in Winnipeg, but this is just ridiculous. Seriously if you're going to make campaign promises at least try to make ones you could pretend to keep.

New Democratic Party

• Good: 60% tuition rebate for new grads. As a new grad I think this is pretty smart. At the same time we don't pay that much in tuition as it is and it's not after graduation when we need the money (unless you've got an Arts degree) it's when you're in school.
• Bad: Dedicated MRI for children. While a nice thought the wait times for MRI's in Manitoba are huge right now. Why not just promise new MRI's, period? It seems silly to limit it to one group of the population. You could always just have children's MRI's as a priority. Just a thought.

So in conclusion politicians are dumb and I'm still no closer to determining who to vote for.

My Long weekend

So I went out to the farm for the long weekend, but I didn't do a whole lot of farm-y stuff. I went out to look at the first calf heifers, my calf looks really good. We also vaccinated calves yesterday, big fun there.

Other than that I watched alot of T.V. there was a hockey game to watch. The Senators won and all was well. I also watched a little bit of tennis, but Rafael Nadal wasn't playing very well and I couldn't watch the whole thing. You can read about it here .

Anyway that was basically the extent of my long weekend. Well except fighting with my brother and fighting with my mom, but that's just what happens when I go home.

Pretending to look busy...

Another day at work another day doing a heck of alot of nothing. Apparently it's been a pretty slow year in our department so far. So I thought I'd make a list of all of the things I've done so far today:

1. Looked to see if Chapter's had a book I wanted. They do so I'll be heading out to St. Vital to get it after work. I also have to pick up a microwave for my mom.
2. Looked at iPod accessories. I don't know if you've seen but right now my current iPod case is being held together by a piece of Minnesota Wild sock tape, so I thought it was time to pick up a new one.
3. Read several sports related blogs
4. Tracked Tennis scores from Hamburg
5. Blogged my own blog
6. Helped clean-up some database files from another department.

Yeah that's about it. Pretty sad eh? I almost hope it picks up around here.

Finally A Real Blog

I've been saying for months that I would start a real blog once I finished school. I've now been done for nearly 3 weeks so I figured it was time I start it up. For everything in my life up to and including yesterday please see my old windowslivespace. I've also started a sports blog so that those of you interested in my random babbling about sports can get it over there. Chances are the sports blog will be used much more often than this one.

I also have a hard time separating my sports from the rest of my life so look out for sports references that will likely seep into my everyday stuff.